Okay, this isn't a character as such, but I really, really like this guy. I'm an TV age of mealy-mouthed, slacker, PC-oriented, whiny non-personalities (in the non-fiction TV dept), he says what he thinks, he's a man of action and doing, and HE GETS [censored] DONE!
So I like him a lot
I also like this lady for similar reasons (and other reasons we won't go into):